GLASRA ARCHIVES

A CATALOGUE OF COLLECTORS IN THE BRYOPHYTE HERBARIUM, NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDENS, GLASNEVIN (DBN).

D. M. SYNNOTT
National Botanic Gardens. Glasnevin. Dublin 9, Ireland.

Glasra 4: 17 – 30.
publication date 2. iv. 1980

The bryophyte herbarium at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin (DBN) contains an estimated 48,000 specimens of which slightly more than half are Irish. Hepatics make up 25% of the total, being about 30% of the Irish material and 20% of the non–Irish material.

Of the non–Irish material, about 75% is from Great Britain. The remainder is mostly from Northern Europe with a small percentage from the United States and Canada and but a few hundred specimens from South America, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

The principal collections included are those made by David Moore (1807–1879), David Orr (d. 1892), William Ramsay McNab (1844–1889), Thomas Chandlee (1824–1907), David McArdle (1849–1934). Henry William Lett (1836–1920), Cosslet Herbert Waddell (1858–1919), A. L. Kathleen King (1895–1978).

In the following list, collectors names are arranged alphabetically. Localities of collection and dates are given for many of the collections; the name of the principal collection in which the material was incorporated, or the registered number of the collection, is given in brackets; this is sometimes followed by the name of a species by which the particular collector is represented. The herbaria of Moore, Lett, Waddell, King and McNab are indicated (M), (L), (W), (K), (McN) respectively.

REFERENCESKNOWLES, M. C. 1905. The Douglas Collection in the Herbarium of the National Museum, Irish Naturalist, 14: 11–13.

Herbarium. Ireland and Gt. Britain c. 1850-70. Fascicle of British and Irish hepatics. Some pages from a fascicle of British and Irish mosses including specimens of Ctenidium crista-castrensis and Neckera pennata allegedly from Ireland. A small bound fascicle of (British and Irish) mosses mostly without localities inscribed by D. McArdle, " A collection of mosses correctly named by Mr. D. Orr". (Praeger 1949)